Marisa D'Vari

"Let's make wine fun & approachable!" says Marisa D'Vari, luxury travel and fine wine writer, as well as judge for London's International Wine Challenge, International Wine and Spirits Competition (also panel judge), and one of just two international wine writers invited to join the jury of Vinitaly's 20th International Wine Competition.
In July of 2013, she was awarded the DUGGAT - Diplôme Universitaire du Goût, de la Gastronomie et des Arts de la Table from the University of Reims, a program created by Remy Krug. In 2011, she was awarded the Fine & Rare Wine Specialist Program bursary from Palais Coburg and attained the Fine and Rare Wine Specialist designation (FRWS) from the Weinakademie Osterreich at Palais Coburg. In 2010 she received the AXA Millésimes Scholarship. Both are directly affiliated with her studies for the Master of Wine program. She is program co-chair for the American Wine Media Guild and a member of the prestigious international Circle of Wine Writers.
D'Vari writes about wine for several publications, including London's FT, Decanter, Robb Report, Quarterly Review of Wine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more. As a wine educator, D'Vari holds three of the most important and rarest international wine designations including the Diploma of Wine and Spirits from the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust, one of 323 individuals (as of January 2012) to earn the Certified Wine Educator designation from the Society of Wine Educators, and the 'Certified Sommelier' designation from the Court of Master Sommeliers in addition to numerous other designations from the American Sommelier Association and the Sommelier Society of America. She is the first American to be invited to join the UK's prestigious Association of Wine Educators. In March of 2011, D'Vari was awarded the Level 5 Honors diploma from WSET for completing a year long research project focusing on the topic of marketing wine to millennials.